urdu

& a. [Hind. urdu =(1) an army, a camp, a market, (2) the language defined in the article.] A. As subst.: The Hindu stan i language, as spoken by the Mohammedan population of India. It is a lingua franc a , which became the medium of communication between the Mohammaden conquerors of India and their Hindu subjects. It is really Hindi language, which is of the Aryan family, with a number of Persian, Arabic, and Turkish words introduced into it, though the inflections of nouns and verbs remain unaltered. Many consider Urdu a distinct language from Hindi, but Beames regards this as a great error in philology. It is now the language most largely used by Europe ans in their It a 1. Bot .: A genus of Limbo ride, closely akin to Lecanora, and named from the form of the shields. The spermogonia are scattered over the thallus, intercourse with the natives of India ultahash sometimes on the border of the apothecia. They Mogul emperors, commencing with Akbar (1556- Urceolaria scruposa and U. cinerea are Crusta- are inconspicuous on account of their pale color. 1605). ceo us Lichens, used in dyeing. The former is the more common, growing on heaths, walls, and rocks. 2. Zool .: A genus of Urceolariide (q. v.), with a single species, parasitic on Planaria torva . Free swimming, highly elastic, changeable in shape; sucking-dise provided with a simply striated horny ring; anterior region usually alternate, with the peristome obliquely set. ür-çe-o-la-ri-i-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Latin urceo. lari (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff, -idæ. ] Zool .: A family of Peritrichous Infusoria, with four genera, from salt and fresh water; all parasitic or commensal. Animalcules free-swimming or ad herent at will, discoidal, turbinate, or hourgla . shaped; anterior border more or le circular, with a spirally convolute ciliary wreath, the right limb of which descends into the oral aperture; oral system consisting usually of a widened anterior entrance (the vestibulum), and a somewhat prolonged pharyngeal pa age; posterior border cup-shaped, adhesive, ciliated, and generally strengthened internally with a horny ring, which in some cases is simple, and in others set with tooth-like proce es. ür-çe-ô-late, a. [Mod. Latin urceolatus , from Lat. urceolus (q. v.).] Bot.: Pitcher-shaped (q. v.).